149891Jefferson’s Account of the Bargain on the Assumption and Residence Bills, 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : These undated notes, conjecturally assigned to 1792, were printed in Vol. 17: 205–8 as part of a group of documents on the constitutionality of the Residence Bill.]
149892To Thomas Jefferson from John Nancarrow, with Drawing by Jefferson, [1792–1793] (Jefferson Papers)
On the second plate following page 233, Fig. 3. Dessein d’une machine pour elever l’Eau par le moyent du Vent. This machine is simple, easily constructed and capable of raising water to any height provided the pumps are made in the Jack-head form. J. N. thinks he has seen one of these Engines with wooden sails instead of Cloth. N.B. This book may be kept 3 weeks unless J. N. be called on to go...
149893Note on the National Debt, [1792–1793?] (Jefferson Papers)
Without pretending to minute exactness we may say that strike off the assumption which is 3/9 of the whole debt foreign and domestic, borrow money to pay the residue at ⅔ of the interest, which is equivalent to getting rid of two of the remaining 6/9 and our real debt would have been 4/9 of what it now is. The surplus of moderate taxes after supporting government and paying the interest of the...
149894To Thomas Jefferson from James Brown, 1 January 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
I am honord with your letter of the 20th. Uto. covering two Letters to the Consul of U S at Marseilles for which Accept my best thanks. Both Ships will sail in course of this Week and I hope will meet a good Reception. My advices from France are of Old dates 20h: Septr. in which there is little encouragement for Shipments of Tobacco every Port being glutted. At Havré alone not less than 15,000...
149895To Thomas Jefferson from George Divers, 1 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been favord with yours of the 26th. Novemr. I would advise you to purchase One Still that will work 85 one of 45 and a Copper Kettle of Sixty Gallons. With these Stills and Boiler you may make from 70 too 80 Gallons of whisky ⅌ Week and feed 60 or 70 Hogs. The feeding that number of Hogs will be an object to you as it will save a considerable quantity of Indian Corn, from which...
149896To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 1 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmit herewith a Duplicate of what I had the Honor to write on the twenty first of last Month. Since that Period this Government, perceiving that they had been Wholly deceiv’d respecting the british Nation, have made Advances towards Conciliation. At least so I am inform’d, and also that these Advances are by a Declaration that however general the Terms of their Decree they had no Idea of...
149897To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Pickering, 1 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your note of this date . It will certainly be most eligible for the Messenger destined to Georgia to take a passage from New-York in a vessel bound to Savannah or Charleston—perhaps preferably to Charleston, where on his arrival he can find a vessel destined to return to New York by the time he can go to Augusta and get back to Charleston—the trade of Charleston requiring so...
149898From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 1 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have it in charge from the President of the United States, to desire you to be very attentive to the embarkation of troops from the British dominions in Europe, to those in America, and particularly to Quebec—and to give us the earliest advice of their numbers, destination, object and other material circumstances. I have the honor to be with great and sincere esteem, Dear Sir Your most...
149899From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly considered the translation of the letter of Dec. 27. from M. de la Forest stating that the French Consuls here have a right to recieve their salaries at Paris, that under the present circumstances they cannot dispose of their bills, and desiring that our government will take them as a remittance in part of the monies we have to pay to France. No doubt he proposes to let us have...
149900To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 2 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Cadiz, 2 Jan. 1793 . Contrary winds having detained the vessel by which he intends to proceed to Setúbal on his way to Lisbon, he may go by way of Ayamonte. He encloses “a letter of some Consequence” he has just received from Gibraltar and hopes to reach that place this month. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD ); 1 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 25 Feb. 1793 and so recorded in SJL . FC (disassembled Lb in...